Author: Paul E. Kopperman
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Keywords: monongahela, braddock
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2003-10
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0822958198
ISBN-13: 9780822958192

A rare combination of documented fact and good storytelling, Ill-Starred General is the biography of a much maligned man from one of history’s most vital eras. The career of Edward Braddock began during the court intrigues of Queen Anne and George I, gained momentum in continental military campaigns in the early 1750s, and ended abruptly in the rout of his American army near present-day Pittsburgh in 1755. This highly acclaimed biography reveals the man-and the politics-behind his defeat, one of the major setbacks to British imperial power in the American colonies. On July 9, 1755, a

Author: Arthur Parker
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Keywords: river, sweat, dreams, monongahela
Number of Pages: 202
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $54.95
ISBN-10: 0271018755
ISBN-13: 9780271018751

The Monongahela River in western Pennsylvania, one of three rivers that meet at the Golden Triangle in Pittsburgh, has a rich history associated with the westward expansion of the nation during the colonial era and with the development of America as an industrial power beginning in the nineteenth century.It is a river that has seen many phases of human use. Given its present-day spelling by George Washington, the Monongahela became the ’river of dreams’ for pioneers who trekked over the Allegheny Mountains, some staying to settle and start trading businesses, others moving on to mi